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    This is Annie Whitsed's Crazy World a world where I stitch the joys and chaos of life into beautifull crazy quilts. email annie@loopylace.com
March 2006
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butterfly beads March 11th, 2006

I don’t know if you want to see another messy back but I thought that those girls who have a block in this quilt might like to see where I attached there blocks. To get a random placement for the butterflies on the front I actually used pins to mark the locations from the back where I fitted them in between where I had stitched the blocks down, if I had done it from the front I would have been distracted by the exact placement of the sashings and the random scatterings would have been more contrived…a bit like the theory that if you want to copy a picture turn the picture upside down because then you wil draw what you are seeing and not what you think it should look like.

messy back of Jazz #2

I used the same trick of adding all the threads for the ties so that all the knots are hidden by the real back…Here are the 20 needles all threaded and knotted.

needles ready for action

because this quilt has sashing strips, that I can put beads in, I don’t have to hide my tie stitches so I have used a different method of tying this quilt…I have used a bead on the front and on the back, much easier and quicker than hiding the stitches on the front, just a matter of going through the bead on the front and then the bead on the back about 3 times, the end of the thread is easily finished under the bead on the back then finishing the thread with a backstitch under the bead on the back and running it into the batting…The Gold butterflies are on the front and the purple butterflies are on the back.

butterfly beads